Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-STOR-ER, n.

One that restores; one that returns what is lost or unjustly detained; one who repairs or re-establishes.

RE-STOR-ING, ppr.

Returning what is lost or taken; bringing back; recovering; curing; renewing; repairing; re-establishing.

RE-STRAIN, v.t. [Fr. restraindre; It. ristrignere, restringere; Sp. restriñir, restringer; L. restringo; re and stringo, to strain. The letter g appears from the participle to be casual; stringo, for strigo. Hence strictus, strict, stricture. If the two letters st are removed, the word rigo coincides exactly, in primary sense, with L. rego, rectus, right, the root of reach, stretch, straight.]

1. To hold back; to check; to hold from action, proceeding or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle. Thus we restrain a horse by a bridle; we restrain cattle from wandering by fences; we restrain water by dams and dikes; we restrain men from crimes and trespasses by laws; we restrain young people, when we can, by arguments or counsel; we restrain men and their passions; we restrain the elements; we attempt to restrain vice, but not always with success.
2. To repress; to keep in awe; as, to restrain offenders.
3. To suppress; to hinder or repress; as, to restrain excess.
4. To abridge; to hinder from unlimited enjoyment; as, to restrain one of his pleasure or of his liberty. – Clarendon. Shak.
5. To limit; to confine. Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral universality is also to be restrained by a part of the predicate. – Watts.
6. To withhold; to forbear. Thou restrainest prayer before God. – Job xv.

RE-STRAIN-A-BLE, a.

Capable of being restrained. – Brown.

RE-STRAIN-ED, pp.

Held back from advancing or wandering; withheld; repressed; suppressed; abridged; confined.

RE-STRAIN-ED-LY, adv.

With restraint; with limitation. – Hammond.

RE-STRAIN-ER, n.

He or that which restrains. – Brown.

RE-STRAIN-ING, ppr.

1. Holding back from proceeding; checking; repressing; hindering from motion or action; suppressing.
2. adj. Abridging; limiting; as, a restraining statute.
3. That checks or hinders from sin; as, restraining grace.

RE-STRAIN-MENT, n.

Act of restraining.

RE-STRAINT, n. [from Fr. restreint.]

1. The act or operation of holding back or hindering from motion, in any manner; hinderance of the will, or of any action, physical, moral or mental.
2. Abridgment of liberty; as, the restraint of a man by imprisonment or by duress.
3. Prohibition. The commands of God should be effectual restraints upon our evil passions.
4. Limitation; restriction. If all were granted, yet it must be maintained, within any bold restraints, far otherwise than it is received. – Brown.
5. That which restrains, hinders or represses. The laws are restraints upon injustice.

RE-STRICT', v.t. [L. restrictus, from restringo. See Restrain.]

To limit; to confine; to restrain within bounds; as, to restrict words to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

RE-STRICT'ED, pp.

Limited; confined to bounds.

RE-STRICT'ING, ppr.

Confining to limits.

RE-STRIC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. restrictus.]

1. Limitation; confinement within bounds. This is to have the same restriction as all other recreations. – Gov. of the Tongue. Restriction of words, is the limitation of their signification in a particular manner or degree.
2. Restraint; as, restrictions on trade.

RE-STRICT'IVE, a. [Fr. restrictif.]

1. Having the quality of limiting or of expressing limitation; as, a restrictive particle.
2. Imposing restraint; as, restrictive laws of trade.
3. Styptic. [Not used.]

RE-STRICT'IVE-LY, adv.

With limitation. – Gov. of the Tongue.

RE-STRINGE, v.t. [restrinj'; L. restringo, supra.]

To confine; to contract; to astringe.

RE-STRIN'GEN-CY, n.

The quality or power of contracting. – Petty.

RE-STRIN'GENT, a.

Astringent; styptic.

RE-STRIN'GENT, n.

A medicine that operates as an astringent or styptic. – Harvey.

RE-STRIVE, v.i. [re and strive.]

To strive anew. – Sackville.

REST'Y, a.

The same as restive or restif of which it is a contraction.

RE-SUB-JEC'TION, n. [re and subjection.]

A second subjection. – Bp. Hall.

RE-SUB-LI-MA'TION, n.

A second sublimation.

RE-SUB-LIME, v.t. [re and sublime.]

To sublime again; as, to resublime mercurial sublimate. – Newton.